Nawal Marwan
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Incendies: Directed by Denis Villeneuve. With Mustafa Kamel, Hussein Sami, Rémy Girard, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin. Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to the Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love. —Mylène Chollet
Incendies. As twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan learn the specifics of the will prepared by their mother, Nawal, they are handed two envelopes: one is for the father they presumed to be dead, the other is to be handed to the brother they didnÂ’t know existed.
Incendies (2010) is a Canadian film that was co-written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. The movie stars Lubna Azabal as Nawal Marwan, "The Woman Who Sings." In the opening of the film we learn that Nawal has just died, leaving some unusual instructions for her two children in her will.
Frightening & Intense Scenes. an intense scene where a mother is set on fire with a bus full of passengers killed by a militant group; her young daughter attempts to rejoin her mother in the already burned bus but is shot down by a soldier. Edit.
2010 Winner Grand Prix Denis Villeneuve A rich, complicated story about sectarian hatred and family bonds that cannot be broken, adevastatingly beautiful and powerful film - it is rare to encounter such quality of depth of ideas in cinema today.
The film was shot in Amman, Jordan, but the story's conflict between Christian and Muslim militias would seem to imply the setting is Lebanon during and after the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Some viewers have noted that the word "Palestine" can be seen on an office window during one scene.
Nawal's travails are more in the vein of a Latin American soap opera than Greek tragedy, and Jeanne and Simon's climactic, genuinely god-awful discovery plays like artistic sleight-of-hand rather than the profoundly tautological revelation it aspires to be. See all 42 reviews on Metacritic.com.
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Laboratory. Technicolor, Montreal, Canada (digital intermediate, color) Negative Format. 35 mm (Kodak Vision3 500T 5219) Cinematographic Process. Digital Intermediate (2K, master format) Super 35 (3-perf, source format) Printed Film Format. 35 mm (spherical)
